"You never cover us"

[goalmouth]

lol

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Sounds like there's a REAL lack of coverage.

 

[DanOregon]

Sounds like someone needs to work smarter, not harder.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

Sounds like someone needs to work smarter, not harder.

If he was working smarter, he wouldn't be working there ... :)

 

[rtse11]

Plan of action:
1. Coverage of "youth and travel organizations" should dropped immediately, or, at best, submitted only.

 

[HanSenSE]

lol

Does he have a sock puppet here?

 

[apeman33]

If this guy was here in Kansas, the first thing I'd tell him is that it's about time to drop coverage of about 18 to 20 of those high schools. But I don't know anything about Port Huron except that the town has about 30,000 people and it appears to be near Detroit, so I'd guess that's not possible.

So then the next thing would be, "Is your resume up to date?"

 

[wicked]

I agree with the guy’s gripes.

But it’s poor form to throw out a woe-is-me tweet. No one wants to read how someone else’s job sucks.

 

[Sports Barf]

I mean, that’s the price of admission when you naively agree to work for Gannett

 

[DanOregon]

Figure out which teams "spark joy" and dump the rest.

 

[expendable]

Only cover the teams that lose.

 

[Tweener]

How many of those 17 complaints come from paying subscribers?

In my experience with coverage complaints, it’s often the same people who ask me why we put some content behind a hard paywall.

 

[ADanielPandR]

lol

Not sure if the 17 gripes Brandon mentioned each came from a different person wanting coverage of a different team, but if that's the case, my inner cynic imagines that if Brandon finally does get a chance to do a story on one of those publicity malnourished entities, the other 16 complainants would leap into the comment thread and scream something along the lines of "This is news?!?!?!" or "NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS!!!!!"

 

[Fredrick]

This is a non sequitir. People are complaining about lack of coverage on the youth level? We've been told grade school and high school kids don't even know what a newspaper is. If so why would they want coverage or care about coverage? Why let some guy with a tape recorder even on the premises if nobody knows what a newspaper even is? We've been told kids have no interest and 30 to 40 something parents don't subscribe either. Somebody's lying. There either is interest or there isn't in newspapers.

 

[tonygunk]

I think there is a lot of interest in reading those stories online, where most of the parents and young athletes actually look and spend their time. But online ads don't sell and papers haven't adjusted well enough (or at all) to becoming online news sources. Not that adjusting would make any sense, anyway, because there's no money to be made.

 

[apeman33]

This is a non sequitir. People are complaining about lack of coverage on the youth level? We've been told grade school and high school kids don't even know what a newspaper is. If so why would they want coverage or care about coverage? Why let some guy with a tape recorder even on the premises if nobody knows what a newspaper even is? We've been told kids have no interest and 30 to 40 something parents don't subscribe either. Somebody's lying. There either is interest or there isn't in newspapers.

Their parents are interested as hell. They're the ones buying the paper and clipping out the stories about Little Johnny.

 

[Fredrick]

Their parents are interested as hell. They're the ones buying the paper and clipping out the stories about Little Johnny.

Then why are newspapers dead? You are saying there's a market for newspapers in your post.

 

[Fredrick]

I think there is a lot of interest in reading those stories online, where most of the parents and young athletes actually look and spend their time. But online ads don't sell and papers haven't adjusted well enough (or at all) to becoming online news sources. Not that adjusting would make any sense, anyway, because there's no money to be made.

No sir. Talk to the experts. The high school stories get very very very few page views. And that is ALL THAT MATTERS now.

 

[Kolchak]

You ever get, "You only cover us when we lose!"

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Then why are newspapers dead? You are saying there's a market for newspapers in your post.

Because that market is tiny.